Thursday, July 23, 2009

Texas Tour '09 - The Driskells

The girls and I arrived back in Virginia on Tuesday evening from our 3 week Texas Tour. We had a great time everywhere we went, got spoiled by family, and cried when we had to leave! But at the same time we are also glad to be back home. So now I'm going to attempt to catch you up on everything we did while we were gone. I've already posted about our week with my mom and step-dad (aka "Mia" and "Boss") out on the lake in east Texas. We left their house on the 11th and headed to the Austin area to spend a week with Len's family. Len's parents ("Nana" & "Papa") live there along with one of Len's brothers, Dennis. Len's sister, Karin, flew in from Colorado for the week and his other sister, Jeannie, and brother-in-law, Joe, drove in from Houston. We had a large crew and we had a lot of fun visiting and catching up!

Sunday

Monday morning swim at the hotel. (This is also proof that I can take 3 non-swimmers to the pool by myself. There were more floaties than children, but that's how I roll!)

Monday afternoon we spent just hanging out and enjoying family time. Uncle Joe spent most of his time goofing off with the girls (and doing whatever they wanted him to do!).


Aunt Karin got a little silly with the girls too.

'N' loved the dog, Puddin'.

And my girls figured out real quick that they had a captive audience in their grandparents and aunts & uncle to perform all their VBS songs for. They literally sang EVERY song for them!



Tuesday we went over to Dennis's house for the day, played and had lunch and dinner.


The group shot.


'N' lovin on Uncle Joe.


All of us watching 'Wall-E'


Len called while we were all together, so we played pass the phone.

On Wednesday we went to the Children's Museum.



On Thursday and Friday we spent more time at the pool, playing, and just hanging out with Nana & Papa.


More VBS singing by 'B' who's sporting the Olivia Newton John look.


Good times & great family! We love them all!

(Texas Tour part 3 will follow soon.)

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